Eat Your Way Through Hangzhou Along Famous Footprints

Author: An Feng
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: In the fall of 2002, one of An Feng's articles titled "A Single Leaf on Mount Gu" about Zhou Zhuren was published in the "Food" section of Hangzhou Daily's "City Week." As an editor, I only had to remind him every week—because whatever he sent was always excellent, requiring no revisions. After "A Single Leaf on Mount Gu," he became relentless, unstoppable, and truly ate his way through Hangzhou. To this day, he has written over sixty articles, covering Hangzhou's famous figures from ancient and modern times, men and women, young and old. He not only knows their biographies and anecdotes about Hangzhou but also deeply understands their personalities, revealing their character through food and drink. Yet that wasn't enough. An Feng is well-versed in every twist and turn of Hangzhou's culinary scene. Whenever a new restaurant opens or an old one introduces a new dish, regardless of its prestige or price, he reacts instantly, drawn by the aroma, and connects the latest culinary trends with the eating habits of these famous figures in a traceable way. In this way, he bridges the past and present, transcends the divide between high and low, transforms the static into the dynamic, and manages to accomplish all this within just a thousand words!